The hoplophobes are on a roll,at least in their own heads. They are
absolutely sure that they are going to get a ban out of current
circumstances that they can imagine no need to compromise, no need
to offer trade offs. Just as an intellectual exercise suggest a
compromise. and it will be shrugged off. No one will be offered a
bridge to nowhere, no one will have military base or research
projects moved to their district.*

The result will be a bill that leaves room only for submission or
armed resistance, and to be honest the left can not imagine that
resistance can be widespread. Perhaps a couple of dozen nut cases
and their dogs. It is beyond their imaginations that a significant
portion of the owners of the weapons (about 5 times ten to the
seventh guns, say twenty million people own at least one) they want
to ban will resist, or how numerous they are. It is beyond their
imagination that a significant portion of law enforcement personnel
and military personnel will side with those resisting the enforcement
of the total ban they imagine passing and enforcing.

They can not imagine realistic opposition to the passage of their
bills, they can imagine no dissipation of public support, they can
not imagine that in any way the solution to violence they propose
(label it gun violence and outlaw guns) is wrong. They cannot imagine
that their actions will start a civil war that may tear the nation
apart, or that the effort to enforce such a law will kill more people,
including innocent children, than it will save ( remember Waco?). Very
probably they don't care.

And you have to ask how such unimaginative types can call themselves
leaders.

* Any suggestion of trade off or compromises is intended to reflect
the normal run of political dealings and not the lack of righteousness
of the gun banners' desires, nor the sacrosanct nature of the freedom
of honest folk to arm themselves as they please or as their
circumstances permit. I am supremely certain that the gun banners are
so confident of the inevitability of their success, the righteousness
of their cause, and the near universal agreement of decent people
with them that they will not offer these things but in fact demand
and expect abject submission by all to their will.